Lavender Heights Eviction Risk: High , Sacramento

This is renter territory: 79% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. The score leans hardest on rent-regulation exposure at 8.5/10. Running hot, eviction-process difficulty reads 8.5/10.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8/10. Severe burden reaches 15%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Against the Sacramento County average of 7.1, this tract reads riskier for landlords by 1.0 points. At $1,596 a month, rents run 10% under what the rest of Sacramento commands.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Sacramento. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. On the national scale it lands near the 91st percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 5.9/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.

Of its three components the household composition measure is the least pressured. Annual rent works out to 22% of average household income of $87,708.

All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.